openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2016/34

Time seems to be flying, it feels like I only just wrote review of week 33 and now week 34 is already over again. A perfect moment to look back what the three snapshots (0818, 0820 and 0822) offered us.

GNOME Maps – New Map provider

A lot of YaST updates

Kernel Firmware 20160804

Skanlite 2.0 – ported to KDE Framework 5

Linux Kernel 4.7.1

GCC 6.2 RC1

Quite the list, updated kernel, updated compiler. One snapshot had been discarded this week: we are trying to align the usage of /etc/os-release which resulted in Tumbleweeds snapshot version to be shown in GRUB.

What will be coming your way soon:

GCC 6.2

ModemManager 1.6.0 – I know some of you are waiting for it

Linux Kernel 4.7.2 – Upstream is fast, so are we

Pattern changes: The ‘Minimal Server Selection’ was removed from the installer. It was basically identical to the ‘Server (Text Mode)’ entry